Facilitating searches in Multiple Bibliographical Databases: Metadata Harvesting Service Providers

Hirwade, Mangala Anil and Bherwani, Mohini Facilitating searches in Multiple Bibliographical Databases: Metadata Harvesting Service Providers. Liber Quarterly, 2009, vol. 19, n. 2. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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English abstract

A metadata harvester is a software package that reads data from servers, writes it to databases, implements various kinds of searches, and writes HTML files to display the results. In this paper sixty metadata harvesting service providers have been studied. The study reviewed metadata generation, preservation and harvesting, and various technical issues arising at these stages.

Item type: Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords: metadata, metadata interoperability, harvesting, OAI-PMH, service providers, data providers
Subjects: I. Information treatment for information services
I. Information treatment for information services > IE. Data and metadata structures.
Depositing user: Mangala Hirwade
Date deposited: 12 Jan 2010
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:16
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/13982

References

ALCTS/CCS/Committee on Cataloging (2000), Description and Access. Task Force on Metadata, Final Report, June 16, http://www.libraries.psu.edu-/tas/jca/ccda/tfmeta6.html (retrieved 25 July 2009).

Baker, T. (2009), DCMI Usage Board review of application profiles, http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/profiles/index.shtml (retrieved 12 July 2009)

Coleman, Nye Pamela (2008), ‘Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting’, The American Archivist 71(2), pp. 569–571.

Hodge, Gail (2003), Metadata Made Simpler. Bethesda, MD.: NISO Press, http://www.niso.org/news/Metadata_simpler.pdf. (retrieved 5 August 2009).

Munshi, Usha Mujoo (2009), ‘Building Subject Gateway in a Shifting Digital World’ DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology 29(2), p. 9.

Websites Referred to in the Text UKOLN website on metadata, http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata (retrieved 10 July 2009).


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